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SE MT | Wondering how many of you use a waste oil burner/furnace for your shops?
I built a homemade unit about 10 years ago that I used for about 4 winters- Was a great solution the the growing waste oil problem and free heat. Great stove, but with no safetys, I made myself upgrade it. Stuff you think about when you have your best equipment in the shop next door to an accident waiting to happen.
I upgraded to the Aaladdin Waste oil furnace Model 120-. I carries about 15gal in the tank below, has a built in thermostat to put itself into high or low mode. Even with only 120,000 btu, it keeps my poorly insulated 20x40 shop pretty warm. especially if I let it run all day. It takes a long time to warm up the shop and the tools in it after a cold night with no heat.
A couple feet from it I plumbed in an old saddle tank for a pickup (40 gal) and plumbed it into the factory tank. It was the same height as the factory tank when I layed it on it's side and on two cinder blocks.. That tank I built a small drain tray for my oil filters and is where I dump my waste oil to fill the two tanks. No pump between, the tanks just equalize with time.
Apologize about the mess, been a long spring/summer/fall- Getting ready to get the shop back in order for winter repair-
Anyone have any good ideas on how to do a temporary fix on the ceiling insulation? Planning a shop add on over the next few years, and might rip out all the old stuff and put spray in insulation in there. Birds have gotten into this stuff over the course of the last 50 years.
Edited by dieselfume1 10/7/2018 17:54
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Waste oil furnace anyone?
